Etixx–Quick-Step
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| UCI code | EQS |
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| Registered | Belgium |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Discipline | Road |
| Status | UCI WorldTeam |
| Bicycles | Specialized |
| Components | Shimano |
| Website | Team home page |
| General manager | Patrick Lefévère |
| Team manager(s) |
Brian Holm Davide Bramati Wilfried Peeters Rik Van Slycke Tom Steels Jan Schaffrath |
| 2003–2004 2005 2006–2007 2008–2011 2012–2014 2015–2016 2017– |
Quick-Step–Davitamon (QSD) Quick-Step–Innergetic (QST) Quick-Step–Innergetic (QSI) Quick-Step (QST) Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (OPQ) Etixx–Quick-Step (EQS) Quick-Step Floors |
Quick-Step Floors (UCI Team Code: EQS) is a Belgian UCI World Tour cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefévère. The directeurs sportifs are Davide Bramati, Wilfried Peeters, Rik Van Slycke, Tom Steels, Brian Holm and Jan Schaffrath.
The team was created as Quick-Step–Davitamon in 2003 from staff and riders of Domo-Farm Frites and Mapei–Quick-Step when the latter disbanded after nine years in the sport. Paolo Bettini won the UCI Road World Cup in 2003 and 2004 as well as the 2004 Summer Olympics road title in 2004. In the 2005 UCI ProTour season, renamed Quick-Step–Innergetic, the team won a large number of classics: Tom Boonen won Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, Filippo Pozzato the HEW Cyclassics, and Paolo Bettini the Züri-Metzgete and the Giro di Lombardia. In late 2005 Tom Boonen won the 2005 UCI Road World Championships in Madrid, where Michael Rogers won the time-trial.
In 2006 Boonen retained the Tour of Flanders and held the yellow jersey in the 2006 Tour de France during stage 3–6, and Filippo Pozzato won 2006 Milan – San Remo. Paolo Bettini won the world championship in Salzburg and retained his Giro di Lombardia crown. In 2007 Tom Boonen won the points classification in the Tour de France, taking two stage wins. Bettini defended his world championship in Stuttgart. In 2008 Gert Steegmans took the final stage of the 2008 Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. Paolo Bettini retired after the world championship in Varese. In both 2008 and 2009 Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders and Tom Boonen, Paris–Roubaix. After two seasons of disappointment, a resurgent Omega Pharma–Quick-Step and Tom Boonen, took four major Spring classics victories, including the four cobblestone courses E3 Harelbeke, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix.
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